Youth service
Overseas, the concept of "youth development" is sometimes included within the concept of national "youth service". Many countries of the world have models of youth service programs involving their young citizens in serving their communities or their country as a whole, in civilian settings. Examples abound in India, Africa and Europe, as well as the Americas.
This kind of youth service has been defined as a sustained form of voluntary service by youth in civilian settings. For more on this concept, see the research undertaken by the Innovations in Civic Participation, or ICP, a "think tank" on global youth service.
ICP are organising the 8th Global Conference on National Youth Service will take place from 19-22 November 2008 at the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris, France. The conference will be hosed by International Association for National Youth Service (IANYS) secretariat, and by Innovations in Civic Participation in partnership with Unis-Cité and the (USA) Association of Voluntary Service Organizations. The conference will include IANYS members and other professionals in the field of youth civic engagement from across Europe and around the world.